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Juan Pablo Salazar-Fernandez; Jorge Munoz-Gama; Marcos Sepúlveda – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Understanding how students with low socioeconomic status finance their tuition over time can help us comprehend the impact of students' decisions on their subsequent curricular progress, graduation, or dropout. This work presents a curricular analytics approach using process mining techniques to study educational funding trajectories as processes.…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Merit Scholarships, Student Needs, Learning Trajectories
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Utibe, U. J.; Agwagah, U. N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study investigated a decade of candidates' performances in NECO-SSCE mathematics in NIGERIA. A total of 9266459 valid results were collated for the study and analyzed for zones in the country. Already validated results of NECO for 2000 to 2009 were used for the study. Three research questions guided the conduct of the study. Results showed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Records, Scores
Hollingsworth, Hilary; Heard, Jonathan; Weldon, Paul R. – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2019
Each year teachers and principals in schools across Australia invest much time and effort, and considerable expense, in activities related to communicating student learning progress. However little is known about the effectiveness of these activities, including the extent to which they are valued by stakeholders, whether they are considered to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Program Descriptions, Data Collection
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González-Sancho, Carlos; Vincent-Lancrin, Stéphan – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
Data use is becoming a prominent strategy for educational innovation and improvement across countries. However, the fragmentation of data collection often hinders the capacity of policymakers, researchers and practitioners to access and analyse the wealth of data routinely generated in educational institutions. A critical step towards realising…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Information Systems, Data Collection, Integrated Learning Systems
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Brimble, Mandy J. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
International trends for pre-registration nurse education at degree level alongside "widening access" initiatives mean that academic achievement of students entering via different educational routes is of interest to both higher and further education institutions. This article examines the academic achievement of students undertaking a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Bachelors Degrees
Daniel, Rhonda – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2015
For its 16th annual Application Trends Survey, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) gathered and analyzed data from a total of 641 graduate business programs located at 306 universities worldwide to understand application volume, the applicant pool, and special efforts being made to attract candidates to graduate management programs.…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Administration, Doctoral Programs
Bonfa, Antonella; Freddano, Michela – Online Submission, 2012
The article analyses the gender effects on student achievement at University of Genova and it is a part of the research performed by the University of Genova called "Benchmarks interfaculty students: Development of a gender perspective to find strategies to understand what leads students to success in their studies", financed by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Gender Differences
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Shin, Seon-Hi; Slater, Charles L. – School Leadership & Management, 2010
This study investigated the differences and similarities in the impact of school leadership on student mathematics achievement in different global regions using TIMSS international data. Three-level unconditional and conditional hierarchical models were fitted to the data in each country. The findings showed that the variables of teacher…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
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Ryan, Martin; McCormack, John; Cleak, Helen – Journal of Social Work Education, 2006
This article reports on a 6-year study that examined the association between pre-admission variables and field placement performance in an Australian bachelor of social work program (N=463). Very few of the pre-admission variables were found to be significantly associated with performance. These findings and the role of the admissions process are…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Social Work